Job Description

At Astellas, we believe that nurturing exceptional relationships with our employees delivers exceptional business results.

Everyone at Astellas has a responsibility for creating a brighter future for patients around the world. From the first moment, Astellas will inspire you to put this ethos into practice \xe2\x80\x93 with a positive, agile company culture and with well-defined ethical principles,values and systems.

Everything we do is led by our company values of integrity, being patient centric, taking ownership, delivering results and communicating openly. These values are essential to Astellas\xe2\x80\x99 relationship with its employees and now is an exciting time to join us as we continue to evolve as a cutting-edge, value driven life sciences innovator.

What you will do includes:

Coordinate financial planning processes of area:

• Ensure accurate financial reporting and adherence to internal controls of area.
• Partner with Area Commercial Lead and all Functional Leads of area, and provide financial decision support.
• Support ERTT and GBS on statutory, tax, treasury and accounting related matters. Collaborate with Regional Planning & Analysis team in projects and ad hoc requests. Manages financial controlling, tax and other activities and advice for all of the APAC territories.
• Coordinate financial planning process for area in accordance with global standards, timelines and templates, in collaboration with Regional Planning & Analysis team. This includes all major financial planning cycles, such as annual budget, interim forecasts and overall mid-term plan (MTP). Collect input from senior management at key decision points during planning cycles.
• Prepare and analyse P&L at area, market and key brand level. Ensure high forecast accuracy of sales and OP. Ensure senior management understands key drivers of sales and OP forecasts through insightful presentations. Lead detailed variance analysis of Actual sales results vs Budget and Forecast. Key member and participant in the area leadership team / management committee. Leads development of mid and long-term plans and scenarios, including financial roadmap for the region.
• Prepare Risks & Opportunities analysis, challenge assumptions, identify opportunities to close gaps and drive their implementation.
• Partner with marketing teams in day-to-day finance interactions. Provide financial decision support. Understand and influence strategic priorities of therapeutic areas.
• Supports negotiation and managing all financial aspects relating to the business partners that are operating across the APAC territory. This involves complex negotiation and discussions on pricing, impacts from FX devaluation, management of accounts receivable and debt recovery, managing shipment timing.
• Maintaining healthy inventory levels within the distributor partner business, as well as dealing with supply challenges and issues. Including working with Supply Chain to understand the cost of goods and influence ways to improve Gross margin.
• Evaluate and establish new business opportunities, including new legal entity, rep offices, proposals to take-back products from partners within the region.
• Lead finance perspective on business case development and pricing change discussions before regional approval, ensuring key financial, competitive and strategic considerations are accounted for.
• Lead finance perspective on business case development and pricing change discussions before regional approval, ensuring key financial, competitive and strategic considerations are accounted for.
• Build cohesive, high-performing Commercial Finance Area Finance team while managing performance, organization design, and career development.
• Provide financial guidance and influence and support to develop business cases and proposals to develop the region operations and lead all financial aspects related to establishment of new Affiliate or rep offices within a country, including those on behalf of ERTT, and GBS until the operations are within a mature enough state to transfer activities.
  

Compliance:

• Embed Compliance Culture, ensuring Integrity in Action is actively applied in all initiatives and proactively address non-compliance.
• Ensure adherence to Astellas policies relating to healthcare compliance standards and interactions with Healthcare Professionals (HCPs), Healthcare Organisations (HCOs) and Patient Organisations (POs).
• Ensure adherence to Astellas policies relating to Finance Controls and Compliance standards.
• Ensure a culture of Ethics and Compliance; lead by example and incorporate cross-cultural perspectives when addressing challenging situations.

Other:

• Legal responsibilities in terms of representative on the Board of Directors.
• Managing complex projects, change initiatives and other such duties as may be reasonably required by the business.
• Leadership:
• Shape and evolve ways of working to optimise the value delivered within a global team.
• Provide leadership, relevant insight and challenge in determining and delivering the strategic direction.
• Stimulate behaviours and alignment across the organisation, supporting the delivery of the strategy.
• Lead and motivate, building an effective team of direct reports.

Developing & Inspiring:

• Able to identify and develop top talent to significantly enhance Astellas\xe2\x80\x99 overall capability and succession pipeline.
• Provides coaching and support.
  

Working as One Astellas:

• Operates seamlessly in global operations and cultures, resolving difficulties with respect for diverse populations.
• Strong coach and facilitator, exercising wisdom and discretion to facilitate respectful solutions to challenging situations.
• Ambassador and role model for ethics and compliance.

Partnering Overall:

• Provides senior level financial and business advice to stakeholders through effective partnerships, useful analyses, and by constructively challenging proposals so Astellas can meet its overall goals effectively.
• Provides key stakeholders with accurate, timely financial information to support decision making, and enabling compliance with policies, regulations, and laws.

Investments:

• Assess commercial viability of investment decisions.
  Evaluation of investment proposals and formulation of recommendations for management to maximise return on investment.
• Direct key business initiatives, identifying opportunities to streamline processes and procedures within his/her remit, driving approved initiatives to completion.
• Act as a catalyst in driving initiatives to deliver the strategy and results.
• Articulate financial risks and opportunities and drive post-investment appraisal of business initiatives within his/ her remit.
  

Planning and Budgeting:

• Responsible for implementing the planning processes within the remit of the role, in alignment with the global process.
• Lead the budgeting process across his/her remit, including target setting, challenging the relevant leads, and ensuring realistic budgets.
• Drive the forecasting process, ensuring that results are reasonably predictive, and effectively highlight risks and opportunities, allowing the business to create value through adjustments and reallocations of investments.
• Support effective business performance management, including working with the Finance Business Partnering teams to set appropriate (and standardised where possible) KPIs, reporting and challenging the business to improve results, grow profits and create sustainable value.
• Leverage business knowledge and relationships to effectively support and challenge business performance and Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting.
  

What you will need :

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree in Accounting or Finance. MBA is preferred.
• CPA or equivalent certificates.
• 10-15 years of relevant experiences.
• Profound work experience in planning and budgeting
• Profound working knowledge of accounting and internal control standards
• Strong people management and communication skills.
• Profound financial analysis skills coupled with ability to communicate meaning from the data.
• Ability to communicate with various management levels.